Saturday, July 13, 2013

Comments on Zimmerman Verdict

I am sure we will see lots of comments on the Zimmerman case in the next few days. Here is a link to a short comment (with lots of links to more articles, comments and information) at the Legal Ethics Forum. The main issue it raises is that "[t]he chief prosecutor in the court room was hamstrung by the murder two
charge, which required him to stretch facts, pre-emptively put on
witnesses who undermined the state's own case, and to spend most of his
case trying to create a reasonable doubt about the defense's theory. One
wonders what would have happened if the state had simply gone with
manslaughter and presented their case with confidence and integrity."